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2025/2026

Visual Arts IV

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
511VT4 KZ 2 0P+2C Czech
Relations:
It is not possible to register for the course 511VT4 and for the course 511VT3 in the same semester.
It is not possible to register for the course 511VT4 and for the course 511VT3 in the same semester.
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Department of Fine Arts
Synopsis:

The subject VT4 consists of learning and practicing the main ability of an architect, capturing space and its architectural components (buildings, trees, people, etc.) in the correct sizes and proportions.

Requirements:

Knowledge of perspective and withering drawing of trees, people in space.

Syllabus of lectures:
Syllabus of tutorials:

13 week teaching

The lesson lasts 2x45min=90 minutes, format A2

1. still life prisms: transferring the morphology of shapes into a drawing of a street (Manhattan), people/staff, view from the horizon of a standing person

2nd photo magnifier: transferring the morphology of shapes into a drawing of an urban space, people/staffing, a view from the horizon of a standing person

3. canister and car disc: transferring the morphology of the shapes into the drawing of the urban space, a bird's-eye perspective

4. lamp(s): transfer to the drawing of a simple urban, bird's-eye perspective

5. car: drawing a car from memory using the designer method, placing it in the space, people/staffing

6. three chairs: perspective to the horizon of a standing person/construction of cast shadows

7th FA respite: color artwork, addition of constructed cast shadows, people/staff

8. semi-trailer with a church: conversion from axonometry to an overhead perspective

9th aisle from floor plan: convert to perspective

10. park with a water channel: convert from floor plan to perspective

11. drawing of the square from the ground plan

12. garden restaurant: 2 vanishing point perspective from the floor plan

13. garden gazebo and castle / restaurant: 2 vanishing point perspective from the floor plan

Study Objective:

The goal is to build on the drawing skills from the previous study and develop them into the ability to individually draw from memory - sketching. Developing the architect's artistic sense.

Study materials:

Koos eissen, Roselin Steur: Sketching

Chris van Uffelen: The Book of Drawings + Sketches: Architecture

Charles Hind, Fiona Orsini, Susan Pugh: The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

Inka Boo: Modern Architecture Sketches: An Adult Coloring Book featuring Beautiful, Luxury Home Exteriors

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Data valid to 2025-03-14
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